The newlyweds return to the cafe on a stolen motorbike, having evaded German roadblocks. General Von Flockenstuffen announces he is replacing General Von Klinkerhoffen due to the latter's nervous breakdown.

Note: This episode marks the first appearance of Robin Parkinson as Ernest LeClerc.

Note: This episode marks the first appearance of Roger Kitter as captain Bertorelli.

After their escape from custody, the newlyweds hide in a secret compartment in the cafe but then find they are trapped. General Von Flockenstuffen is determined that the Nouvion garrison will play a bigger part in the war. In response, the Germans and Bertorelli decide to spring General Von Klinkerhoffen from hospital and return him to his post.

Note: This episode marks the last appearance of Ken Morley as general Von Flockenstuffen.

In London, René and Edith meet up with an old friend enjoying a new life. However they must return to Nouvion, and do so just in time to avoid the mandatory interrogation for persons missing for over 24 hours.

Note: In the episode before this, Herrs Flick and Von Smallhausen are deprived of their spectacles, which are even crushed, since they are not allowed any worldly goods in the monastery. However, in this episode, they have recovered their spectacles (although the lenses are mostly smashed).

Note: In this episode, Sam Kelly makes a one occasion special appearance as captain Hans Geering. This is the last time he appears on the show.

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BBC One
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BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and it was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997. The channels annual budget for 2012–13 is £1.14 billion, the channel is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBCs other domestic television stations, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership. As of June 2013 the channel controller for BBC One is Charlotte Moore, the BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932. BBC Television returned on 7 June 1946 at 15,00, Jasmine Bligh, one of the original announcers, made the first announcement, saying, Good afternoon everybody. Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh, the Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939 was repeated twenty minutes later. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities following a reduction in its audience. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and it therefore decided that Britains third television station should be awarded to the BBC. The station, renamed BBC TV in 1960, became BBC1 when BBC2 was launched on 20 April 1964 transmitting an incompatible 625-line image on UHF. The only way to all channels was to use a complex dual-standard 405- and 625-line, VHF and UHF, receiver. Old 405-line-only sets became obsolete in 1985, when transmission in the standard ended, although standards converters have become available for enthusiasts who collect, BBC1 was based at the purpose-built BBC Television Centre at White City, London between 1960 and 2013. In the weeks leading up to 15 November 1969, BBC1 unofficially transmitted the occasional programme in its new colour system, to test it. At midnight on 15 November, simultaneously with ITV and two years after BBC2, BBC1 officially began 625-line PAL colour programming on UHF with a broadcast of a concert by Petula Clark, colour transmissions could be received on monochrome 625-line sets until the end of analogue broadcasting. In terms of share, the most successful period for BBC1 was under Bryan Cowgill between 1973 and 1977, when the channel achieved an average audience share of 45%. On 30 December 1980, the BBC announced their intention to introduce a new breakfast television service to compete with TV-am. On 17 January 1983, the first edition of Breakfast Time was shown on BBC One, becoming the first UK wide breakfast television service and continued to lead in the rating until 1984. The first major overhaul was to axe the deeply unpopular Sixty Minutes current affairs programme and its replacement was the BBC Six OClock News, a straight new programme in a bid to shore up its failing early evening slot

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'Allo 'Allo!
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Allo Allo. is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising eighty-five episodes. The story is set in a small-town café in German-occupied France during the Second World War and it is a parody of another BBC programme, the wartime drama Secret Army. Allo, Allo. was created by David Croft, who wrote the theme music. Lloyd and Croft wrote the first six series, the remaining series were written by Lloyd and Paul Adam. Set during the Second World War, Allo Allo, tells the fictitious story of René Artois, a café owner in the town of Nouvion, France. Military from the Axis powers have occupied the town and stolen all of its valuable artefacts and these include a painting of The Fallen Madonna by Van Klomp. Two officers, Colonel Kurt von Strohm and Captain Hans Geering, have decided to keep the paintings for themselves after the war, Hitler also wants the paintings, and sends Herr Flick of the Gestapo to the town to find them. Flick, in turn, conspires to keep them, the paintings are duplicated by a forger, get mixed up, lost, found and are put in knackwurst sausages, and hidden in the cellar of Café René. Other valuable artefacts include a painting of the Cracked Vase with the big daisies by Van Gogh, the first cuckoo clock ever made, at the same time, the café is being used as a safe house for two brave but clueless British airmen, Fairfax and Carstairs. René is forced to work with the French Resistance, led by the fearsome Michelle Dubois, the far-fetched plans of the Resistance to get the airmen back to Britain repeatedly fail. These are some of the running gags of the series. As part of plans, the Resistance have placed a radio in the bedroom of Renés mother-in-law, Madame Fanny La Fan. René answers with Allo, allo, zis is Nightawk, are you receiving me, hence the title of the show. The Resistance is also helped by Officer Crabtree, a British spy posing as a French policeman, however, he does not speak it very well, especially the vowels, resulting in frequent malapropisms. For example, whenever he says Good morning, it out as Good moaning. René is also trying to keep his affairs with his waitresses secret from his wife, Edith, but she is such an appallingly bad singer that visitors to her café often put cheese in their ears to block the sound. In addition, the communist resistance is plotting against René for serving Germans, however, the communist resistance only blow things up for money. Furthermore, the seemingly gay German Lieutenant Gruber is also continually flirting with René and these situations are more humorous because René is not stereotypically attractive, is not considered a hero, and is often forced by his wife to undertake missions and secret operations

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Gorden Kaye
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His mother, Gracie, was 42 when he was born. His father, Harold, was a driver and in the ARP during the Second World War. When young, Kaye played rugby league for Moldgreen ARLFC before studying at King Jamess Grammar School, Almondbury and he worked in hospital radio in Huddersfield, and was employed in textile mills, a wine factory, and a tractor factory. Kaye had appeared in a play directed by Alan Ayckbourn. He made his TV debut as a guard in the BBCs Yorkshire mill drama Champion House and played small roles in such films as The Partys Over. Having been seen by Pat Phoenix in Little Malcolm by David Halliwell at Bolton, he was cast as Bernard Butler and he later made an impression on producer/writer David Croft following guest roles in It Aint Half Hot Mum and Come Back Mrs. Noah. He appeared in the 1978 comedy short The Waterloo Bridge Handicap, starring Leonard Rossiter and he also appeared in the drama series All Creatures Great and Small and in the private detective series Shoestring. In 1981, Kaye appeared as Frank Broadhurst in the drama serial Codename Icarus. Kaye appeared in three episodes of Crofts British department store sitcom Are You Being Served. and was offered the lead role in a series he had written called Oh Happy Band. But Kaye was unavailable and the part went to Harry Worth, in 1990, Kaye played the fictional local television presenter Maynard Lavery in an edition of Last of the Summer Wine. Kaye had a part in Terry Gilliams film Brazil as desk clerk M. O. I. Lobby Porter and appeared in Gilliams 1977 film Jabberwocky as Sister Jessica and he played Dr Grant in a television adaptation of Mansfield Park and Lymoges, Duke of Austria in the 1984 BBC production of King John by Shakespeare. He also toured in the National Theatre production of As You Like It, in 1982, David Croft sent Kaye the script for the pilot episode of Allo Allo. Inviting him to play the character of René Artois. He accepted and appeared in all 84 episodes and 1,200 performances of the stage version. Kaye was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1986 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the call of the West End stage version of Allo Allo. at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The other characters were portrayed by Australian actors, including Katy Manning, Steven Tandy, Chloe Dallimore, kayes autobiography, René and Me, An Autobiography, was published in 1989. In the book, he described his experiences as a shy, gay, overweight, the unusual spelling of his name was the result of a British Actors Equity Association typing error

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Vicki Michelle
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Vicki Michelle MBE is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Yvette Carte-Blanche in the BBC television comedy series Allo Allo. and her father was a fish-trader and her mother an actress. She attended Knewnham Junior School in Wanstead and West Hatch Technical High School, after O-levels she stayed on at school to complete a secretarial course. Hoping to become a dancer she joined the Aida Foster stage school. Michelle was given small roles while still at stage school. She also appeared regularly in the 1970s childrens BBC TV series Crackerjack, more recently, she played the role of Amanda Newman in the 2010 TV film Resentment, and she was Deborah Whitton in the 2013 rom com The Callback Queen. After spending much of 2008 on tour with the Allo Allo, stage show, Michelle took a break to pursue various other projects, including appearing as the Wicked Queen in a pantomime production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Hull New Theatre. She rejoined the cast of Allo Allo. in March 2009, Michelle made several appearances in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale as Patricia Foster, mother of Jonny Foster – a role which she reprised for two episodes in early 2009. In Autumn 2014, Michelle returned to the stage in the hit play Hello Norma Jeane at Londons Kings Head Theatre, in 2012, Michelle was executive producer of the film based on the Ray Cooney theatrical Run For Your Wife. Michelle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to charity, Vicki Michelle now suffers from the condition tinnitus. Vicki Michelle at the Internet Movie Database Official site Vicki Michelles charitable work, Daily Mail Im A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here 2014 Interview with Vicki Michelle

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David Croft (TV producer)
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Major David John Croft OBE was an English writer, producer and director. David Croft is particularly noted for producing and co-writing a string of popular BBC sitcoms with Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd including Dads Army and it Aint Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi. and Allo Allo. Croft was born into a family, his father, Reginald Sharland, had a successful career as a radio actor in Hollywood. His first public appearance was at the age of seven, when he was seen in a commercial aired in cinemas. After that, his career in films began and ended with his uncredited appearance as Perkins in the film Goodbye. Croft was educated at two independent schools, at Durlston Court Preparatory School in Swanage, followed by Rugby School in Warwickshire, at Durlston Court, he overlapped with the schools only other distinguished old boy, Tony Hancock. The boys attended Sunday services at St. Aldhelms Church, and he enlisted in the Royal Artillery in 1942. He served during the Second World War in North Africa, India, after contracting rheumatic fever in North Africa, was sent home to convalesce and then underwent officer training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Croft was posted to India, arriving as the war in Europe ended, when his military service ended he began working in the entertainment industry, as an actor, singer and writer. Croft met Freddie Carpenter, who produced many pantomimes for Howard & Wyndham across the UK, resulting in Croft writing scripts such as Aladdin, Cinderella and Babes in the Wood. Through his lifelong friend, composer/conductor Cyril Ornadel, Croft met the producer Fiona Bentley, David Croft himself played a number of roles, including Timmy Willie in Johnny Town-Mouse, Kep in Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Old Brown in Squirrel Nutkin. Croft relocated to the Northeast of England to work at Tyne Tees Television, after leaving Tyne Tees Television to work at the BBC in the mid-1960s, he produced a number of the Corporations popular sitcoms such as Beggar My Neighbour, Further Up Pompeii. and Hugh and I. The two men co-wrote nine series of the show, which was retitled Dads Army, as well as a feature film, while Dads Army was still running, Croft began to co-write Are You Being Served. with Jeremy Lloyd. He was to both writing partnerships for the rest of his career in several hit series including It Aint Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi. He then started up You Rang, MLord, a show that spoke of policies and unfairness in 1927. His last full series Oh, Doctor Beeching, broadcast from 1995 to 1997, was co-written with Richard Spendlove. He created a pilot in 2007, entitled Here Comes The Queen. This pilot starred Wendy Richard and Les Dennis, but because of Wendy Richards death the show never went to a full series, as a producer, Crofts regular practice was to signal the end of an episode with the caption You Have Been Watching

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Gavin Richards
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Gavin Richards is an English actor, writer and director. He is best known for adapting, directing and starring in the West End production of Dario Fos Accidental Death of an Anarchist. He also played Captain Alberto Bertorelli in the BBC sitcom Allo Allo. from 1987 to 1989, Gavin was born in Tufnell Park, Islington, north London. His mother was Margaret Richards, who worked for years as an assistant to Hugh Binkie Beaumont. She went on to become secretary to Roy Strong at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Gavin attended the Burleigh Road School in Tufnell Park and later the Quintin Grammar School in St Johns Wood. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1964–66 and he began his professional career with five years in repertory theatres in Leicester, Manchester, Bolton and Liverpool. Richards has worked as an actor, director and writer in theatre, television and he is most familiar for his portrayal of Terry Raymond in the BBC TV series EastEnders, appearing in over 300 episodes. He also played Captain Alberto Bertorelli in the TV comedy hit Allo Allo. in which he appears in thirty episodes. His television credits include roles in Coronation Street, Hi-de-Hi. The Bill, Lovejoy, Minder, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost, Between the Lines and he co starred with Robert Powell in Hannay, with Leigh Lawson in Kinsey, Michael Kitchen in The Reporters and with Rowan Atkinson in Full Throttle. He also starred in the series Annies Bar, Driving Ambition, Hardwicke House, Mike & Angelo and many other programmes. He has appeared in films, amongst others, with Robin Williams in Being Human, with Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson in Michael Apteds Triple Echo and he also starred in the production for Channel 4 TV in the UK. Gavin played Face in Griff Rhys Joness production of The Alchemist at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and he worked as a guest artist on the BBC/SPP TV co production of Kidnapped, and the TVNZ production of The Lost Children, both shot entirely in New Zealand. Gavin has performed at the London Palladium in the production of Allo Allo. He directed Shane Connaughtons first play, Jenny at the Roundhouse, London, belt & Braces also produced Brechts Mother Courage. In 1989 he played Brian in the British Gas Public Information Film about the dangers of a gas leak, the production was then remounted in the UK at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. The production also played in Blenheim, Invercargill, Whangarei, Tauranga, Theatre South is the only professional theatre company in Malrborough. Past productions include a workshop production, The Hole in the Sky

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Sam Kelly
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Roger Michael Kelly, known by the stage name Sam Kelly, was an English actor who appeared in film, television, radio and theatre. He is best known for his roles as Captain Hans Geering in Allo Allo, warren in Porridge and Ted Liversidge in Barbara. Kelly was born in Manchester, Lancashire on 19 December 1943 and he attended the Liverpool Collegiate School and was a chorister at Liverpool Cathedral, where he showed early acting talent by reciting monologues. He worked for three years in the Civil Service in Liverpool before training as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, after graduating in 1967, he appeared in repertory theatres around the UK. His early roles included playing a director in Tiffany Jones and appearances in two of the later Carry On films, Carry On Dick and Carry On Behind. He played German officer Captain Hans Geering, leaving after the third season and he played the law-stationer Mr Snagsby in the 1985 BBC adaptation of Bleak House. In On the Up he played Dennis Watermans chauffeur and he appeared in Well Think of Something as Les Brooks, from 1995 to 2003, he played Barbaras husband Ted in the British sitcom Barbara. In 1996, Kelly appeared at the National Theatre in Helen Edmundsons adaptation of Leo Tolstoys War and he played Bernard in Holding On and Carl Langbehn in the five-part television drama Christabel. He appeared in Midsomer Murders Down Among the Dead Men as Jack Fothergill and as the eccentric impoverished ghostwriter, Majors, in the 1990s, he co-starred in the comedy television series Haggard and in the miniseries Martin Chuzzlewit. Pinafore with the new DOyly Carte Opera Company in 2002, in 1998, Kelly appeared in an episode of the first series of Cold Feet, playing Algernon Gifford. On radio, he played the part of Carter Brandon in the BBC Radio 4 series of the adventures of Uncle Mort and Carter Brandon in Uncle Morts South Country. These were written by Peter Tinniswood, in 2004, he appeared in EastEnders playing Stan Porter, and he also appeared in the comedy series Black Books as the father of Manny. In 2006 he appeared as the villain Guy Carse in New Tricks, Kelly starred in Jean-Paul Sartres play Kean alongside Antony Sher at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and in the West End in May 2007. In December 2007, a car struck and injured Kelly in the West End and he was to have performed in the Doctor Who episode filmed in that month, but the role was taken by David Troughton instead. Kelly though did act in the Doctor Who audio dramas The Holy Terror, in 2008, he guest starred in the Sapphire and Steel audio drama Remember Me. In November 2008, he starred in the role of Christopher Reasons radio dramatisation of Jaroslav Hašeks The Good Soldier Švejk. From May 2009, Kelly starred as the Wizard in Londons West End Theatre production of the Wizard of Oz inspired musical Wicked, from 27 March 2010 he was succeeded by Clive Carter. He worked with director Mike Leigh on several occasions, including Grown-Ups, Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, on 23 July 2010, Kelly starred as Martin in the sitcom My Family and in the Heartbeat episode Deadlier Than the Male

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Carmen Silvera
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Carmen Dorothy Blanche Silvera was a Canadian-born British comic actress of Spanish descent, who moved to Coventry, England, with her family when she was a child. She appeared on television regularly in the 1960s, and achieved acclaim in the 1980s as her starring role in British television programme. In Canada, she took classes with the Ballets Russes and appeared in three of its productions, on her return to Britain, she felt called to acting and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, before gaining experience in repertory theatre. Silvera first made her name as an actress in the 1960s British police drama Z-Cars in 1962. She played Mrs Van Schuyler in Lillie in 1978, ITVs drama series about the future Edward VIIs mistress, Lillie Langtry. She appeared twice in Doctor Who, in the serials The Celestial Toymaker as Clara the Clown, Mrs. Wiggs, and the Queen of Hearts, and as Ruth in Invasion of the Dinosaurs. In 1970 she appeared in the Dads Army episode Mums Army as Fiona Gray, the love-interest for Captain Mainwaring, silveras longest-running role came as Edith, the antagonistic wife of opportunistic cafe owner Rene Artois, throughout the history of the Allo Allo. She appeared with Ted Rogers at the New Wimbledon Theatre in 1997 in Jimmy Perrys stage musical Thats Showbiz and she also played a grandmother in the 1997 film La Passione and had roles in Clinic Exclusive, On The Game, and Keep It Up Downstairs. In 1990, she was the subject of a This Is Your Life television programme and she did charity work for the Grand Order of Lady Ratlings, the ladies branch of the Grand Order of Water Rats. Silvera was enthusiastic about horse racing after her grandfather took her to a race at Warwick and she won a bet on Light Of Love at the race, which came in at 7,1. Silvera married John Cunliffe, an actor she met at repertory theatre in Tonbridge, Kent and she divorced following a miscarriage and never remarried. A heavy smoker, she died after a battle with cancer on 3 August 2002, aged 80. Her Jamaican-born father, Roland Silvera, was a well-known flat-green bowls player, after emigrating to Canada in 1910 and becoming a ship hand, Roland fought for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I. Roland married Dorothy White in Warwick in 1918 and returned to Canada and they emigrated back to Warwickshire in 1924. Coventry & District Bowls Association runs a competition for the Silvera Shield

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Kenneth Connor
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Kenneth Connor, MBE was an English comedy stage, radio, film and TV actor, best known for his appearances in the Carry On films. By 11 years old, he had his own act and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he was a Gold Medal winner. Connor made his debut in J. M. Barries The Boy David, at His Majestys Theatre. During World War II he served as a gunner with the Middlesex Regiment but continued acting by touring Italy. While waiting to be demobbed in Cairo, Connor received a telegram from William Devlin asking him to join the newly formed Bristol Old Vic and he moved on to the London Old Vic Company for a 1947–48 season at the New Theatre. His most notable performances there were as Chaplain de Stogumber in Saint Joan and Dobchinsky in The Government Inspector, realising he was not a tall, impressive juvenile lead or a young lover type, he decided to specialise in comedy. He took over from Peter Sellers in Ted Rays radio show Rays a Laugh – launched by the BBC in 1949 as a successor to Tommy Handleys ITMA and he played the brother-in-law and other oddball characters such as Sidney Mincing. Ray took Connor with him to his TV shows, and the pair would star together in the third Carry On film, on occasion he appeared in The Goon Show, standing in for regular cast members struck down by illness. He also appeared in the anarchic, Goon-style TV series The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, in 1955, Connor gained a small role in the film The Ladykillers as a taxi driver. Alongside Kenneth Williams and Eric Barker, Connor was one of three actors to appear in both the first and last of the original sequence of Carry On films. In Carry On Nurse, his real-life son Jeremy appeared as his character Bernie Bishops son, in 1961, he starred with fellow Carry On stars Sid James and Esma Cannon in the comedy film What a Carve Up. In fact, in the 1959 –1961 period, he was one of the most prominent leading men in British comedy films. As well as What a Carve Up. and the Carry On films, other films he starred in during this period included Watch Your Stern, Nearly a Nasty Accident, in 1960, he appeared as various characters in the Four Feather Falls puppet series. Connor had a tenor voice, which he occasionally used to good effect. In contrast with some of his Carry On co-stars, Connor found further success on the London stage, between 1971 and 1973, Connor joined Dads Army stars Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender on the BBC radio comedy Parsley Sidings. On television he appeared in The Black and White Minstrel Show, as Whatsisname Smith in the childrens show Rentaghost and he was honoured by the Queen with appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1991. He was still working just two days before his death, with an appearance on Noel Edmonds Telly Addicts and his final TV appearance, as Mr Warren in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes episode The Adventure of the Red Circle, was broadcast posthumously in 1994. Connor died of cancer at his home in Harrow, London in 1993, Kenneth Connor at the Internet Movie Database

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Richard Marner
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Richard Marner was a Russian-born British stage and screen actor. He was probably best known for his role as Colonel Kurt Von Strohm in the British sitcom Allo Allo. In 1924, his family left Russia and went to Finland and then Germany, before ending up in London. After being educated at Monmouth School in Wales, Molchanoff became an assistant to the Russian tenor Vladimir Rosing, during World War II he joined the RAF, and was posted to South Africa with the Air Training Corps. After being invalided out, he changed his name to Richard Marner, one of Marners early stage roles – as Dracula, with Howard Dean – is still regarded by some as the definitive interpretation of the role. In 1967, well before his role as the German Colonel in Allo Allo Marner played the minor and he was also in the television movie Birth of the Beatles, as Bruno Koschmider. Marners best known role was in Allo Allo. as German Commandant Colonel Kurt Von Strohm and he appeared in all nine series of the programme between 1984 and 1992. He also appears in an episode of Secret Army, the programme that Allo Allo parodies and his other work included roles in Mackenzie, Triangle, Lovejoy, and the film The Sum of All Fears. In 1991, when Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, convened a Congress of Compatriots, Marner was one of the 600 people who returned to the motherland. Despite being caught up in a coup, he stayed long enough to watch, through tearful eyes, the raising of the first Imperial Russian flag flown in Moscow since the 1920s. He died 9 days before his 83rd birthday on 18 March,2004, aged 82 in Perth, Scotland and left a wife, actress Pauline Farr, who retained Molchanoff as her off-stage name. Marner was fluent in Russian, English, French and German, Richard Marner at the Internet Movie Database

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Guy Siner
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Guy Domville Siner is an American-born English actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in the British television series Allo Allo. Siner was born in New York City and his father was American, born in Manhattan, New York, and his mother English, born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. His mother wanted him to be educated in the United Kingdom, after attending St Edmunds School, Hindhead, he trained for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He is cousin to the actress Selina Cadell and her brother, in 1980, Siner portrayed director Mack Sennett in The Biograph Girl, a short-lived West End musical about the silent film era. He played Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in the sitcom Allo Allo. between 1982 and 1992, other credits include I, Claudius, Babylon 5, Seinfeld, You Rang, MLord. The Brittas Empire, Leprechaun 4, In Space, Martial Law, Diagnosis, Murder, Secret Army, Star Trek, Enterprise and he also played a small role in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, The Curse of the Black Pearl. In addition to this, he appeared in ChuckleVision. After Allo Allo came to the end of its run in 1992, Siner worked for a time in the United States, based in Los Angeles and he has since returned to the United Kingdom, and now resides in Chesham in Buckinghamshire. Siner is notable as being one of ten actors to appear in both the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises. In 2006, Siner appeared in two films by writer and director David Roden called Beginners Please and The Resurrectionist, the other characters were portrayed by various Australian actors, including Katy Manning, Steven Tandy and Jason Gann. Guy Siner at the Internet Movie Database Official website

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Hilary Minster
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Roger Michael Hilary Minster, better known as Hilary Minster, was an English character actor. Born in Surrey, England, he is perhaps best known for playing General Erich Von Klinkerhoffen in the sitcom Allo Allo. between 1984 and 1992, other credits include Crossroads, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and a semi-regular role in Secret Army as Hauptmann Muller. Minster also had a period writing scripts with Kenneth Williams for the latters International Cabaret television show. In 1974, Minster appeared as Lieutenant Lightfoot in the Upstairs, Downstairs episode Facing Fearful Odds and he also appeared twice in Doctor Who, as the Thal soldier Marat in Planet of the Daleks and as an unnamed Thal soldier in Genesis of the Daleks. This makes him one of the few Doctor Who actors to have played two characters from the alien race. He also had a part in another episode of a successful science fiction series playing Yagon in Achilles Heel. His film appearances were scarce but include roles in A Bridge Too Far, The Godsend, Cry Freedom and he was a presenter and producer of Central Independent Televisions flagship ethnic minorities current affairs programme Here and Now during the early 1980s. Minster died from cancer in London on 24 November 1999 and his body was buried at Putney Vale Cemetery. The epitaph on the gravestone reads, The noblest of men and he brought laughter to a million hearts. Loving father to Leo, Quona, Jack and Lyall, sources differ as to the year of his birth. Dates given include 19 September 1939 and 21 March 1945, according to the BBC DVD Genesis of the Daleks, Hilary Minster was born in 1945. According to the index, however, his birth was registered between April and June 1944